Leaders in the tech industry, gathered at the CES technology show in Vegas, are optimistic that artificial intelligence (AI) tools will help people with their jobs and won't lead to technology replacing them. At the annual convention dominated by AI-powered tools, executives are addressing concerns that the advance of AI will lead to humans being replaced by technology in the workplace. Senior figures in the tech sector have argued the aim is not to replace humans at work but help improve their working lives by augmenting certain tasks to allow them to focus on other things both professionally and personally.
Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) which runs CES, said: "Certainly it will have an impact on jobs, both positively and negatively. The positive is that it will take away from humans a lot of jobs that are repetitive and that humans don’t want to do – and it will give us longer and healthier lives.
"It will have cars avoiding car accidents and save us a lot of human misery, but new human skills will be needed to create new jobs," he spilled. "For example, in the auto industry as we move to self-driving – which is generative AI in part – you will have jobs creating new environments and cars. It will create ‘sleeping cars’ that you can buy or rent. It will have entertainment or education, you name it. They’ll be new business models, and people have to clean cars and things like that – those services will develop. The rental car markets will change. Those are good things. They’ll be different jobs out there.".
